Surprising article from IGN: Wii goes hardcore

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sc94597 said:

The_vagabond7 said:

sc94597 said:

 

So then the desire is for media outlets to be NOTHING but extensions of publisher's PR representatives? Who wants to hear opinions of 1up, IGN, Giantbomb or the like? Just deliver the press releases and be done with it.

Of course without the limitations a PR representative would bring. Ideally I could care less about their opinion, I just want the facts of the game(s) so I can form my own opinion. I would like them to drop review scores too, or make it a very simple system that coaxes and tells you which reviews are worth reading or not, rather than which games are worth getting or not. 

Well I must say there should be a balance between you two, yeah saying everyone is biased and against the Wii is retarded, but every group does this, but its also hard to ignore things like "professional" reviewers flat out troll consoles, then write inacurate editorials about why the Wii is so bad (see: Daemon Hatfield) 

I mean so many articles have trolling in them that would get them banned off their own forums if they posted that... but no these guys are paid to tell everyone the no bullshit facts about a game... and to be honest the integrity of the system has been compromised a LONG time ago and has only went way down hill this generation.

But it's common sense, the industry went from two people making games in their basements and reviewers having a passion for gaming and hardly getting paid anything, to billions of dollars flying around and if a company goes bust is all riding on the sales of one game, yeah they're gonna pay off some reviewers, yeah some reviewers are just simply going to be fanboys, and yeah the big companies are loving the system they're setting up for themselves to get a lot of press, they fund the press, and they reap the sales come launch, that isn't a conspiracy theory that's just how the industry is and where the money is riding is the HD development...